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Example sentences for "shekels"

Lexicographically close words:
sheh; sheiks; sheiling; shek; shekel; shel; sheld; sheldrakes; shelf; shell
  1. Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

  2. And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals.

  3. Flinging the shekels into the Sanctuary he left the place, and went and hanged himself.

  4. If a doctor has cured the broken limb of a man, or has healed his sick body, the patient shall pay the doctor five shekels of silver.

  5. If it was a man's slave, the owner of the slave shall give two shekels of silver to the doctor.

  6. If it was a freedman, he shall receive five shekels of silver.

  7. If it was a man's slave, the owner of the slave shall give the doctor two shekels of silver.

  8. If a doctor has treated a man for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has cured the man, or has opened a tumor with a bronze lancet and has cured the man's eye, he shall receive ten shekels of silver.

  9. If it was a freedman, he shall give three shekels of silver.

  10. Mac 10:40 Moreover I give every year fifteen thousand shekels of silver out of the king's accounts from the places appertaining.

  11. Mac 10:42 And beside this, the five thousand shekels of silver, which they took from the uses of the temple out of the accounts year by year, even those things shall be released, because they appertain to the priests that minister.

  12. If the person is from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

  13. Your valuation shall be of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

  14. If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

  15. The earliest notice of gold used otherwise than for jewels and ornaments only occurs in the reign of David, when he purchased the threshing-floor of Ornan for 600 shekels of gold by weight; 1 Chron.

  16. So, too, in the records of sacred history, Abraham weighed unto Ephron 400 shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

  17. Recall how it tempted Achan to steal a goodly Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight.

  18. What you mint for the miller will soon melt away; It is earthy, and earthy good only it buys, But the shekels you tost me are safe from decay; They were coined of the sun and the moment that flies.

  19. Thus, a man sold a slave for fifty shekels and received twenty-five shekels as advance price.

  20. Its price was usually about two shekels per SAR, but might be as high as eight shekels per SAR.

  21. So really what he sold was, after all, only a right to income from her husband of twelve shekels a year.

  22. My lord, do thou make her worth the five shekels of silver that I have weighed out and sent to thee.

  23. In the month of Tishri, he shall pay the money in full; if not, interest shall be two shekels per mina monthly.

  24. If he be a plebeian, he shall pay three shekels of silver.

  25. In the time of the Second Dynasty prices varied from as low as four and a half shekels for a maid, or ten shekels for a man, up to eighty-four shekels.

  26. If a boatman has built a boat of sixty GUR for a man, he shall pay him a fee of two shekels of silver.

  27. The scale generally used was as follows: 60 shekels = 1 mana.

  28. Last month I had to pay ten shekels for the tribute!

  29. In the former case, the priest was to fix a price upon the field on the basis of fifty shekels for so much land as would be sown with a homer--about eight bushels--of barley.

  30. And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

  31. And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

  32. And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord part of the field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the sowing thereof: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

  33. Then Achan confessed that he had taken a beautiful mantle of Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight, and had hidden them in his tent.

  34. Ephron agreed, and Abraham weighed the money to Ephron, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

  35. For a bull ten shekels were to be paid to them, and though the tariff at Carthage lays upon the sacrificer a fee of only 2 sus for each head of fowl sacrificed, the inscription of Massilia raises the fee to 3/4 of a shekel and 2 sus.

  36. These shekels were the commonest and most indispensable measure of value.

  37. Ten silver shekels of this weight could therefore without any further trouble be exchanged for the fiftieth of the gold mina, or gold shekel of the light gold talent.

  38. And his brethren took Joseph again out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver.

  39. Shekels was then offered as a witness by the prisoner.

  40. Shekels having testified there was a bill of sale executed, Burch was called upon by the prosecution to produce it, inasmuch as such a paper would corroborate the testimony of Thorn and Shekels.

  41. If Christian effort seems ever fruitless, the first thing to do is to look for the 'Babylonish garment' and the glittering shekels hidden in our tents.

  42. Mediterranean, "weighed unto Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

  43. And Abraham weighed unto Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

  44. The first-born are found to exceed the number of the Levites by two hundred and seventy-three; and for their redemption Moses takes "five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary.

  45. So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold.

  46. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

  47. David Paid for a Threshing Floor Fifty Shekels of Silver.

  48. David Paid for it Six Hundred Shekels of Gold.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shekels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boodle; brass; bread; buck; cabbage; cash; chips; coin; dough; gelt; gilt; grease; green; money; needful; ointment; purse; smash; stuff; stumpy; sugar; swag; wampum